Phishing Feature: Convert HTML To Text

[Julian Field]

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On 21 Oct 2005, at 13:39, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I have just added a comment to the article. Sending plain text   
>> messages doesn't help at all. It is trivial to write an HTML  
>> email  message that looks exactly like a plain text one when  
>> viewed in all  the most popular email apps.
>>
>
> Agreed, but what i'm suggesting is forcibly converting the html  
> message to text by removing all links/frames/tags/objects and  
> replace the links with the plaintext (href) values if the option  
> (Convert Phishing HTML To Text) is set in MailScanner.conf as done  
> in the "Convert HTML To Text" option.

That looks to be pretty easy.
Do other people agree this would be a good idea?
Would people use it?

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